Today's News

The City of Dry Ridge is in danger of its dwindling reserves evaporating as the city council approved the 2012-13 budget on May 14.
The past several years the city has had to dip into its reserves without sufficient revenue to cover expenses.

The total budgeted appropriations for Grant County for 2012-13 is $10.4 million, down from $11 million this year.
Of that, $4.4 million was appropriated in the general fund — about $594,000 less than this year's budget.
Nearly all of the rest of the appropriations, nearly $6 million, came from the road and jail funds.
On the revenue side, the county has budgeted $9.57 million for all funds.
The budget, which the Grant County Fiscal Court approved June 4, takes effect July 1.

Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary, among other elementary schools in Grant County in partnership with the Grant County Extension Office received chicken eggs from the Grant County 4-H. The students and teachers used an incubator and watched the eggs hatch.

For three fifth grade students at Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary, their final chess match was the most exciting moment in a year full of tournaments. The trio attended the national chess tournament at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.
Seth Sutton, Carter Petrey and Austin Creech experienced for the final time as fifth graders a big tournament.

Susan Fugazzi of Williamstown received the MAE degree in Read Write Specialist P to 12 during University of the Cumberlands (UC) annual commencement ceremony on May 5 in the O. Wayne Rollins Center.
Cumberlands recognized its largest graduating class, 483 students, for receiving bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctoral degrees.

This graduating class was able to accumulate over 50,000 hours of community service during their tenure at UC.

Mackenzie Cloe of Berry, a 2010 graduate from Williamstown High School, is entering her junior year of college as an elementary education major at Northern Kentucky University. Cloe was recently named the Dean’s Scholarship award member along with only six other students in the department of the College of Education and Human Services.

Christ Community
• Vacation Bible School - June 20 – June 22 – Registration starts at 5 p.m. with the program beginning at 5:30 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m. The closing ceremony will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on June 23.
• June 23 - The Youth, under direction of Derrick Gambrell, will launch their first outreach at 5 p.m. at Grant County Park. The bands will perform in the amphitheater. There will be free hamburgers and hot dogs for everyone. For more information, call 859-394-2586.

I have a bad habit of reading things in print that catch my eye. Whenever I see someone wearing a t-shirt with a message blazed across the front, I am drawn to read it. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t wasted my energy and sometimes I am amused or enlightened. In a day of extreme mass marketing, it is possible to see someone wearing any type of message or advertising.